2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup


The 2018 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup, so-called 2018 AVC Cup for Women was the sixth edition of the Asian Women's Volleyball Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation with Thailand Volleyball Association. The tournament was held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, from 16 to 23 September 2018.
As hosts, Thailand automatically qualified for the tournament, while the remaining 9 teams, qualified from the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship in Biñan and Muntinlupa, Philippines.

Qualification

The ten AVC member associations participated in the tournament with Thailand already qualified as host country, and the nine remaining teams qualified from the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship. The ten AVC member associations were from three zonal associations, including, Central Asia, East Asia, Oceania and Southeast Asia. While any West Asian teams did not participate the tournament's qualification.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Pools composition

This is the first Asian Women's Volleyball Cup which will use the new competition format. Following the 2017 AVC Board of Administration’s unanimous decision, the new format will see teams being drawn into three or four pools up to the total amount of the participating teams. Each team as well as the host side will be assigned into a pool according to their previous ranking. As the three best-ranked teams will be drawn in the same Pool A, the next best three will contest Pool B. Pool C will comprise teams finishing next best four teams.
Pool APool BPool C

Venue

All matches will be held at Korat Chatchai Hall, Nakhon Ratchasima

Squads

Preliminary round

Pool standing procedure

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. Result of the last match between the tied teams
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser

Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Rankings

Classification Round

Classification Round (R5-R10)

Section 1

5th-8th Classification

5th-8th place

7th place

5th place

Final round

Play-offs

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

3rd place

Final

Final standing

RankTeam
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Awards

Source: AVC